Guru Stotram – 4

स्थावरं जङ्गमं व्याप्तं यत्किञ्चित्सचराचरम् ।
तत्पदं दर्शितं येन तस्मै श्रीगुरवे नमः ॥ ४॥

Sthāvaraṃ jaṇgamaṃ vyāptaṃ yatkiñcitsacarācaram
tatpadaṃ darśitaṃ yena tasmai śri gurave nama: 

Salutations to my guru who showed me ‘That’ which pervades all moving, non-moving, sentient and insentient.

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Let us expound the meaning of the above verse:

This is more on the same lines as we have seen in Stotram – 1;

The immovable (sthāvara) and the movable (jaṅgama) are all aspects of existence which is pervaded by the ultimate reality. We saw earlier how the entire existence is pervaded on a macro and micro cosmic scale. The awareness permeates (vyāptaṃ) everything and is still untouched and beyond everything. This means that the ultimate reality is omnipresent.

Not that the existence alone is pervaded but that anything and everything (yat kiñcit) whether sentient (cara) or non-sentient (acara) is also pervaded by the same reality. This highlights how there is one fabric that weaves the whole existence together. Everything that we see is infused with one ultimate reality.

My salutations goes to the guru who taught me about that reality (tat padaṃ)


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